2024's Hugo Award Winners Announced

Slashdot reader Dave Knott writes: After once again being plagued by controversy, this time due to a thwarted ballot-stuffing campaign, the 2024 Hugo Awards have been awarded at the 2024 World Science Fiction Convention. This year's winners are: * Best Novel: Some Desperate Glory, by Emily Tesh* Best Novella: Thornhedge, by T. Kingfisher* Best Novelette: "The Year Without Sunshine", by Naomi Kritzer* Best Short Story: "Better Living Through Algorithms", by Naomi Kritzer* Best Series: Imperial Radch, by Ann Leckie* Best Graphic Story or Comic: Saga, Vol. 11, written by Brian K. Vaughan, art by Fiona Staples* Best Related Work: A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?, by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith* Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves * Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form: The Last of Us: "Long, Long Time", written by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, directed by Peter Hoar* Best Game or Interactive Work: Baldur's Gate 3, produced by Larian Studios* Best Editor Short Form: Neil Clarke* Best Editor Long Form: Ruoxi Chen* Best Professional Artist: Rovina Cai* Best Semiprozine: Strange Horizons, by the Strange Horizons Editorial Collective* Best Fanzine: Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together, editors Roseanna Pendlebury, Arturo Serrano, Paul Weimer; senior editors Joe Sherry, Adri Joy, G. Brown, Vance Kotrla* Best Fancast: Octothorpe, by John Coxon, Alison Scott, and Liz Batty* Best Fan Writer: Paul Weimer* Best Fan Artist: Laya Rose* Lodestar Award for Best YA Book: To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose* Astounding Award for Best New Writer: Xiran Jay Zhao

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